VDR source code repository

Recently there has been renewed talk on the VDR mailing list of creating a source code repository,
so bringing VDR in line with almost all major open source projects, which use repositories such as
git or mercurial to keep track of the many source code updates.
See http://linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2008-September/017659.html.
The original developer of VDR has so far been hesitant to agree, but developers point to a hiatus of
144 days in development and the exodus of users from the VDR camp (mostly to MythTV) as a reason to
modernise the software development process.